Women's Holocaust Narratives in Yugoslav „Jewish Almanac”

Svirčev, Žarka (2025) Women's Holocaust Narratives in Yugoslav „Jewish Almanac”. In: A Space of Her Own: Women in the Holocaust. Belgrade : University, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory ; Israel : WHISC – Women in the Holocaust International Study Center, pp. 151-171. ISBN 978-86-82324-95-9

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Abstract

The paper presents the literary work of female contributors to the „Jewish Almanac” („Jevrejski almanah”, Belgrade, 1954–1971). Research attention is directed toward a genre-diverse corpus of texts (short stories, radio dramas, poetry) focused on the themes of the Holocaust and women, authored by Frida Filipović, Julija Najman, Mirjam Štajner, Maja Zrnić, Eva Tičak Vajler, Sonja Nahman Premeru, Zora Dirnbah, Ina Jun Broda, Zlata Bojović, Dalija Lea Štern, and Mirjana Papo. This body of texts is interpreted within several contexts through an interdisciplinary intersection of periodical studies and feminist literary criticism: (1) within the documentary and commemorative-monumental function of the „Jewish Almanac”, and the intergeneric and intertextual connections within this periodical publication; (2) in their correlation and communication as a specifically gendered and marked literary-representational corpus on the Holocaust; and (3) within the framework of socialist memory culture strategies—either as support for these strategies or as the construction of alternative representational models.

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